Frases de Terry Eagleton
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Terry Eagleton é um filósofo e crítico literário britânico identificado com o marxismo.

✵ 22. Fevereiro 1943
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Terry Eagleton: Frases em inglês

“Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 151

“If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 131

“Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.”

Terry Eagleton

Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 172
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

“Chaucer was a class traitor
Shakespeare hated the mob
Donne sold out a bit later
Sidney was a nob.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 14, The Ballad of English Literature

“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 145 (See also: Rene Girard)

“What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian”

Terry Eagleton

2000s, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Marxism and Literary Theory (2002)

“If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 1, p. 21

“When it comes to who exactly should be exploited, the system is admirably egalitarian.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 162

“It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 120

“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138

“Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 6, p. 134

“History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 3, p. 44

“Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.”

Terry Eagleton

Fonte: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 202